The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-02-10
THE GREAT DISTRIBUTION.
Sermon by Rev. T. De Witt Tai
mage, D. D.
A New Apportionment-The Earth to Be
Captured for Chrst-Heaven to Be
Shared by the Redeemed and the
UnfaIlen-Final Rewards.

BROOKLYN, n Y, Jan. Distribution
of Rewards was the subject of DR.. Tai
IMAGES sermon this morning. He chose
for his text part of the twelfth verse of
the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah: I" He
shall divide the spoil with the strong"
Following is the sermon:
My family, who saw it with their eyes
year before last, tell me that in the Col
iseum at Rome, where prosecutors used ID
let out half-starved lions to eat up Chris
tians, there is now planted the figure of a
cross. And l rejoice to know that the up
right piece of wood nailed to transverse
piece has become the symbol, not more of
suffering than of victory. 1t is of Christ
the Conqueror that my text speaks. AS
kingly warrior, having subdued an en-
pire, might divide the palaces, and man
sions, and cities, and valleys, and mount
aims, among his officers, so Christ is going
to divide up all the earth and all the
heavens among His people, and you and
will have to take our share if we are
strong in faith and strong in our Christian
loyalty, for my text declares it: g He shall
divide the spoil with the strong"
The capture of this round planet for
Christ is not so much of job as you might
imagine, when the church takes off it's coat
and rolls up its sleeves for the work,
as it will. There are 1900, 900, 600 peo-
pie now in the world and there
are 450,O000O0 Christians. Subtract the
450,000,00o who are Christians from
the $4,000, 100000 and there are 1885,
000,00 left to be Christianized Now divide
the L, $50, coo, 900 by the $50 COZ, 600 already
Christianized, and it makes only twenty
five people for each Christian to bring to
Christ. Surely, when the church gets
wide awake, no Christian will be content
to TAXI to Heaven less than twenty-five.
Why, hope to take with me at least 10,-
600. know evangelists that have already
gathered Sc, 600 each for the kingdom. There
are at least 100000 men in Christendom
whose one business it is to save souls. So
that when l tell you all that we need to
average is twenty-five souls reaped for
God in lifetime, all idea of impossibility
vanishes from this omnipotent crusade.
know of a Sabbath-school teacher who
has spent her lifetime in teaching the
young, and she has had five different
classes during all these years, and she tells
me they averaged about seven in class,
and they were all converted, and five times
seven are thirty-tive, as near as can CAL
culate. She brought her twenty-five, and
had ten to spare. My grandmother
brought her whole family into the king
dom, and her grandchildren, and, l hope,
all her great-grandchildren for God re-
members prayer seventy-tive years old
as We'll as though it were a minute; and
she took her twenty-five into the kingdom
and had at least one hundred to spare. Be-
sides that, the telegraph and the telephone
will, within a few years, put the whole
earth into compass of ten minutes Con-
old o1@ 41-<
Omniscience and Omnipresence preside
over all the york of betterment and you
will take this enterprise of the worlds re-
demption out of the impossibilities into the
possibilities, and then out of the possibili.
ties into the probabilities, and then out of
the probabilities into the certaintles The
building of the Union Pacific railroad from
ocean to ocean was greater undertaking
than the girdling of the earth with the
Gospel, for the one enterprise depended
upon the human arm while the other de-
ponds upon Almightiness.
Do / really mean all the earth will sur
render to Christ? Yes How about the
uninviting portions9 Will Greenland be
evangelizeda The possibility is that after
few more hundred brave lives are dashed
out among the icebergs, that great refrig-
orator, the Polar region, will be given up
to the walrus and the bear, and the inhab-
itants will come down by invitation into
tolerable climates, or those climates may
soften, and, as it has been positively DEM
onstrated that the Arctic region was once
blooming garden and fruitful field,
those regions may change climate and
again be blooming garden and fruitful
field. 1t is proved beyond controversy by
German and American scientists that the
hn E,.cf -
this world inhabitable; the world hot be-
yond human endurance, those regions
were of course the first to be cool enough
for human foot and human lung 1t IS
positively proved that that Arctic region
was tropical climate.
Prof. Heer, of Zurich, says the remains
of flowers have been found in the Arctic,
showing it was like Mexico for climate,
and 1t Is found that the Arctic is the moth
er region from which all the flowers de-
scended. Prof. Wallace says the remains
of all styles of animal life are found in the
Arctic, including those animals that can
live only in warm climates. Now that
Arctic region which has been demonstrate
ed by flora and f;Slaa and geographical ar
gument to have been as full of vegetation
ana life as our Florida, may be turned
back to its original bloom and glory or it
Will NC SHUT up as museum OF CRYSTALS for
curiosity-seekers once in awhile to visit.
But Arctic and Antarctic in some shane
will belong to the Redeemer's realm.
What about other unproductive or re-
|pulslve regionsa All the deserts will be ir-
Z rigated. the waters will be forced I'D to the
great American desert between here and
the Pacific by machinery now known or vet
to be invented, and, as great Salt Lake
City has no rain and could not raise an
apple or bushel of wheat in one hundred
years without artificial help, but is now
through such means one great garden. so
all the unproductive parts of all the conti-
nents will be turned into harvest fields and
orchards. A half-dozen De Lessons will
furnish the world with all the canals
needed, and will change the course of rivers
ana open new lakes, and the great Sahara
desert will be cut up into farms with an
astounding yield of bushels to the acre
The marsh will be drained of its waters
and cured OF its malaria
saw the other day what was for manv
years called the Black Swamp of Ohio. it's
chief crop chills and fevers, but now. bv
the tiles put in the ground to carry off the
surplus moisture, transformed into the
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